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Pascal Atuma flew into town on Thursday to steal someone's wife. The Nigerian movie star will just be acting, of course, but he still doesn't want to get too friendly with the man who will play the unlucky husband in a film called Hawa.

That would make it harder to project the "rays of light" that will beckon the wife and title character away from one life toward another.

Atuma, writer, producer and star of movies like My American Nurse, Only in America and Hurricane in the Rose Garden, knows his business. And ordinarily, his services might have been too costly for a young filmmaker like Arzouma ...